Siri Margrethe Kalvig (born 6 November 1970 in

Stavanger Stavanger, officially the Stavanger Municipality, is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the third largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the ...

) is the founder and former managing director of the weather forecasting company Storm Weather Center, which was established in 1997. In 2014 she completed her doctorate in offshore technology at the

University of Stavanger The University of Stavanger ( Norwegian: '','' UiS) is a public research university located in Stavanger, Norway. It was established in 2005 when the Stavanger University College received university status. The university is organised in six f ...

. Before that, she managed the Storm Weather Center's Stavanger office. She has also been a board member at the University of Stavanger in the period 2007 to 2009. Since 2018, she has been managing director of the state-owned company Nysnø Klimainvesteringer.

Biography

Kalvig was a weather forecaster on TV 2, where she started in 1992, and has since worked with weather and

meteorology Meteorology is the scientific study of the Earth's atmosphere and short-term atmospheric phenomena (i.e. weather), with a focus on weather forecasting. It has applications in the military, aviation, energy production, transport, agricultur ...

. She has a daily weather column on the back of the VG newspaper. She has studied physics and astrophysics at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo (; ) is a public university, public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation#Europe, oldest university in Norway. Originally named the Royal Frederick Univ ...

, and meteorology at the Department of Geophysics at the University of Bergen (UiB). At UiB, she took a master's degree in 2005. The title of her master's thesis in meteorology was "Lokal- og mikrometeorologi (Vindstress på sjøis i Barentshavet)" ('' English'': Local and micrometeorology (Wind stress on sea ice in the Barents sea)). Kalvig danced some ballet in her early youth, but put all dancing on hold when she chose to prioritize her meteorology studies. Høsten 2008 var hun med på dansekonkurransen ''

Skal vi danse ''Skal vi danse'' () is a Norwegian television series which has been broadcast on TV 2 and produced by Monster Entertainment since 2006. The series sees celebrities partner with professional dancers to compete in mainly ballroom and Latin dance. ...

'' på TV 2. Kalvig won Venstres miljøpris (''English'': Venstre's environmental award) in 2008 She was awarded this year's professional prize during the

Gullruten Gullruten ("Golden Screen") is an annual award for the Norway, Norwegian TV industry, founded in 1998 by ''Norske Film- og TV-produsenters forening''. The awarding committee has representatives from the major national TV companies, Norwegian Broa ...

2009 for "her professional strength, and the dissemination of her profession on several platforms". In 2021, she was awarded HR Norway's leadership award. Kalvig has previously said that her commitment to the environment comes from her time in Unge Venstre during the 1980s. Siri M. Kalvig was a student at

Stavanger Cathedral School Stavanger Cathedral School (''Norwegian language, Norwegian: Stavanger katedralskole'') is an upper secondary school in the city of Stavanger, Rogaland county, Norway. It is spread over two areas; the traditional Kongsgård and the school's new b ...

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